The Comprehensive Spending
Review department by
department - the debates
behind the cuts

Energy, Environment and
Climate Change

Cuts

Overall funding for the Department for
Energy and Climate Change will fall by an
average five per cent a year from a £3.1bn
annual budget

Funding for households to install solar
panels and improve energy efficiency have
been cut

Debates

The West should foot the bill
for tackling climate change

Major reductions in carbon
emissions are not worth the
money

Education and skills

Cuts

The Department for Education has avoided
the harshest cuts - its budget will fall
from £58.4bn this year to £57.2bn by
2014 while the schools budget is actually
being increased from £35billion to £39bn a
year.

Education is being asked for savings of just one per cent over
the four years of the spending review. This includes
reductions of a third in the back office administration, the
abolition of education quangos and 60 per cent cuts in
building works.

The Education Maintenance Allowance – giving teenagers
£30 a week to remain in college beyond the age of 16 –
will also be scrapped in favour of more “targeted support”.

The Coalition has also pledged a spend
£2.5bn on a “pupil premium” to encourage
the best schools to admit pupils from poor
backgrounds

There will be no graduate tax, but
better-off students “will have to pay more”.

Debates

British universities should be
more like the Ivy League

You don't need a good
education to lead the good life

Public schools are a blight on
British society

Too many people go to university

Communities and Local
Government

Cuts

Social housing system will be more flexible and £4.4 billion will be
spent on new schemes. The terms for tenants and their rent levels
will remain but new tenants will be offered 80 per cent of the market
rate while 150,000 new affordable homes are planned over next four
years.

Cuts of 7.1 per cent a year by the
end of the Spending Review period.

An extra £650million will be provided to allow
councils to freeze council tax in the 12
months from April 2011.

Debates

International Development

Cuts

The Department for International
Development budget will rise to £11.5 billion
in 2014/5 from £7.3 billion this year.

The department has been ringfenced from cuts as a
result of the Coalition agreement to increase the amount
of spending on overseas aid to 0.7 per cent of GNP by
2013.

Debates

Foreign aid does more harm
than good

The best thing we can do for
Africa is leave it alone

Northern Ireland, Scotland
and Wales

Cuts

Central funding for Wales will
be reduced by 7.5 per cent.
Scotland’s block grant will fall
by 6.8 per cent in four years
and Northern Ireland’s funding
will decline by 6.9 per cent.

Debates

Let's get rid of Scotland

Total Spending Cuts

Cuts

Expenditure will be £651 billion in 2011/12,
rising to £665 billion in the following year, to
£679 billion in 2013/14 and £693 billion in
2014/15.

Public spending will total £702 billion next year, £713 billion in 2013
and £740 billion by 2014/15, which in real terms is the same level
as 2008.

Overall public sector workforce will
be reduced by 490,000 by 2014/15.

Total Government spending will be
cut by 19 per cent over four years.

Debates

Deficit Hawks deserve a punch
in the kisser

Crisis and Recovery - Ethics,
Economics and Justice

Fairness is meaningless

We need deep public spending
cuts now

Happiness lies in making do with less

The Queen and the Civil
List

Cuts

The Queen has agreed to a one year cash freeze in the
Civil List for next year and to cut Royal Household
spending by 14 per cent in 2012-13 while grants to the
Household will be frozen in cash terms.

A one-off payment of £1 million will be given over to support
Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Afterwards, the Royal
Household will receive a new sovereign support grant which
will be linked to a portion of the revenue of the Crown
Estate.

Debates

Home Office

Cuts

The Home Office's budget will fall by six per
cent a year from £10.2 billion this year to
£8.3 billion in 2014-15 .

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) will have to
find 20 per cent savings, while the Home
Office’s administration costs will tumble by
33 per cent.

Police spending will fall by 4%
each year of the spending
settlement

Debates

Prison works

Civil liberties threats

Transport

Cuts

The Department for Transport will have an
annual budget of £13.6bn - down from
£15.9bn

A total of £30 billion is to be invested in transport
projects over the next four years, including £14
billion to fund maintenance and investment in
railways.

The Tube will continue its
upgrade and Crossrail will go
ahead.

A rise in the cap on regulated rail fares to 3 per
cent above RPI inflation from 2012 will come in to
pay for new rolling stock and improved passenger
conditions.

Debates

Science, Innovation and
Business

Cuts

Annual savings of 7.1 per cent will be found
from the overall budget including a drop in
administration costs of £400 million

Science funding will be frozen at
£4.6bn but dozens of quangos will be
cut.

Programmes including Train to
Gain will be abolished.

Debates

Laissez faire capitalism

Culture, Media and Sport

Cuts

The BBC licence fee will be frozen for six years and the corporation will
take responsibility for funding the BBC World Service, previously funded
by Foreign Office handouts. It will also fund BBC Monitor and part-fund
the Welsh-language service S4C. Together, this will save the Treasury
£340 million a year.

Nineteen quangos will be
abolished or reformed.

The DCMS budget will come
down to £1.1bn by 2014/15
from a current total of
£1.7bn in 2010/11

Debates

Hands off the BBC – our last
great public institution

Justice

Cuts

Plans for a new 1,500-capacity prison have
been scrapped and there are expected to be
3,000 fewer prison places by 2015.

A relocation of 1,000 posts out of London by
2015 will provide savings of £41 million by
2015

Around 14,000 jobs are likely to
go, including 11,000 frontline
posts.

Controversial changes on the way criminals are sentenced,
including early guilty plea discounts, as well as cuts in the
use of remand are predicted to cut the current prison
population by 3,000 to just over 82,000 by 2014.

The legal aid bill will be
reviewed and reduced

103 magistrates' courts and 54 county
courts could be closed to save £15.3 million
a year.

The Ministry of Justice is hit with cuts of 23
per cent and will have to find savings of £1.6
billion over the next four years as it

Debates

Health

Cuts

Spending will reach £114 billion by 2014/15, up from £104 billion
this year. New hospital schemes will be funded, a new cancer
drug fund will be set up, and more money will be given over to
dementia research.

£1bn will be diverted from the NHS to social care to
help cut emergency readmissions to hospitals.

One to one nursing care for cancer patients and a
pledge under the previous government to have cancer
tests conducted within one week will also be
postponed.

The number of quangos will be cut from 18 to
10 by 2014 and the administration costs will
be reduced by a third.

The NHS has been given an increase in funding but
this is less than half a per cent over four years

Debates

The NHS is broken. It needs
reinventing

Work and Pensions

Cuts

The state pension age will be increased to 66 for both men
and women by 2020, estimated to save £5 billion. The
maximum Savings Credit award in Pension Credit will be
frozen for four years.

Public service workers will have to contribute more to their
pensions, with exact figures to be announced in the spring.
The current deal would cost the taxpayer £3 billion by
2015-16. New pension reforms would save £1.8 billion per year
by 2014/15.

Winter fuel allowances will remain unchanged and the temporary
top up for the over 80s, which is £100 and the over 60s, which
is £50, which become permanent. For pensioners, free eye
tests, free bus passes, free TV licences for the over 75s will
continue.

Final salary schemes for MPs
will end.

Debates

Retirement should become a
thing of the past

Central Government

Cuts

Whitehall to deliver £6 billion in spending
cuts, double the £3 billion initially promised.
The Treasury is to cut spending by 33 per
cent.

The Cabinet Office will partially move into the
Treasury’s office and its current budget of £2.6
billion will be reduced by £55 million by 2014/15.

Debates

Foreign Office

Cuts

The proportion of the UK's development spending controlled by
the Foreign Office will rise sharply, so DfID will cover a greater
proportion of the £696 million that the FCO spends on conflict
prevention and peace keeping activities.

The department has an annual budget of
£1.6 billion and has had to agree to cuts of
24 per cent to £1.3 billion in 2014/5

These savings will be made by a sharp
reduction in the number of Whitehall-based
diplomats

Debates

Attention World! Britain still matters

Welfare and The Family

Cuts

The Government claims
today’s cuts will save £7 billion
a year.

Couples with children will only be eligible for Working Tax Credit if they
work 24 hours a week between them. The childcare element will return to
70 per cent. The child element of the Child Tax Credit will increase by £30
in 2011-12 and £50 in 2012-13 above indexation, reaching four million
lower income families.

The age threshold for the shared room rate in
housing benefit will be increased from 25 to
35.

The budget for Council Tax benefit will
be reduced by ten per cent from April
2013.

The Disabled Living Allowance
will be kept in place.

Working age benefits and tax credits are to be replaced by
one universal credit, with £2 billion set aside. A new Work
Programme will be launched today to get more people into
employment.